Craig Wright, the self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto candidate and chief scientist at NChain, has addressed the recent allegations about him hacking the now-defunct exchange Mt. Gox. Last week, a lead maintainer of Monero (XMR) privacy coin Ricardo Spagni tweeted out court documents suggesting Craig Wright’s affiliation with a Mt. Gox-related Bitcoin (BTC) wallet known as “1Feex”: “Just so we’re clear, Craig Wright has just openly admitted (via his lawyers) to be the guy that stole 80k BTC from Mtgox.” Spagni’s tweet followed a string of letters sent by Wright’s lawyers on June 12, where they stressed that their client owns 80 …

One of the faces of the anonymous Monero coin, Ricardo Spagni, also known as Fluffy Pony, tweeted out information indicating Craig Wright's affiliation with a Mt. Gox-related Bitcoin wallet. "Just so we're clear, Craig Wright has just openly admitted (via his lawyers) to be the guy that stole 80k BTC from Mtgox," Spagni said in a June 12 tweet, including court documents in the post. Fluffy Pony makes his point Spagni added: "The screenshots below show the court documents indicating the '1Feex' address is where the stolen Mt Gox funds were sent. What do you have to say, Calvin Ayre?" …

A new theory regarding the true identity of anonymous Bitcoin (BTC) creator Satoshi Nakamoto has emerged from an extremely unlikely source. Enter the Escobar family and its story about Yasutaka Nakamoto. The story goes like this: Yasutaka Nakamoto was a high-ranking engineer for Pacific West Airlines who worked for Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, smuggling drugs into the United States from South America. Yasutaka disappeared completely from public view in 1992 after surviving an assassination attempt by his former employer. He then resurfaced years later to create and launch Bitcoin. He is also supposedly the brother of Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto. …

Craig Wright maintains that he alone has access to the ‘Satoshi’ Bitcoin addresses filed in court, despite a message apparently signed by 145 of the addresses calling him “a liar and a fraud”. Wright says anyone that thinks his credibility is now in tatters as a result “doesn’t understand digital signatures at all”. He is being sued by the estate of his alleged former business partner Dave Kleiman, which is seeking a share of billions of dollars of Bitcoin (BTC) the pair may or may not have mined together. As part of the case, Wright filed a list of early …

Craig Wright, the self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto candidate and chief scientist at NChain, has lost an appeal against Bitcoin.com founder and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) evangelist, Roger Ver. Wright originally sued Ver for calling him “a fraud and a liar” in a now-deleted YouTube video in 2019, but the lawsuit was eventually dismissed, causing Wright to file an appeal. According to May 29 court documents from the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, the appeal has now been rejected because “England and Wales is not clearly the most appropriate place to bring this action for Defamation.” Wright, an Australian national, reportedly …

The Kleiman estate's legal team has entered into evidence this week's revelation that 145 addresses claimed by Craig Wright are not controlled by him. They filed a notice of supplementary evidence supporting their motion for sanctions against Wright earlier this morning, adding to their laundry list of complaints against the Satoshi-claimant. They said the new evidence further proves the “CSW Filed List” is not a list of Wright’s Bitcoin public addresses but is instead a “purposeful fabrication” by him. The Kleiman estate is suing Wright over the Bitcoin he allegedly mined in a partnership with the late Dave Kleiman. ‘Liar …

On Monday, a Bitcoin (BTC) miner — or multiple Bitcoin miners — signed a message calling Craig Wright a fraud. One of the addresses used had been previously attributed to the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. The message was signed with 145 signatures belonging to the 145 corresponding addresses, and one of those addresses — 12CTHhyJtr49LgoUShbWgebLBviLAFj6nj — was a coinbase address for the Bitcoin mined in block 30169. Previous research conducted by Sergio Demian Lerner identified this block as one mined by Satoshi. Block 30169 Part of “Patoshi” Pattern. Source. SatoshiBlocks. Experts disagree However, Lerner told Cointelegraph that this is …

A message signed by 145 wallets containing Bitcoin (BTC) mined in its first years calls Craig Wright a “liar and a fraud.” The message was published on May 25 with a list of 145 addresses and their corresponding signatures. This seemingly proves that the addresses do indeed belong to the person broadcasting the message. The message itself reads: “Craig Steven Wright is a liar and a fraud. He doesn't have the keys used to sign this message. The Lightning Network is a significant achievement. However, we need to continue work on improving on-chain capacity. Unfortunately, the solution is not to …

It’s been a good week for Bitcoin. The halving doesn’t seem to have done the top cryptocurrency any harm at all, with the dollar value up more than 8 percent over the previous week. Ethereum is up more than 10 percent which just shows that the opportunity for blockchain-based solutions are still red-hot. If you’re taking that opportunity to issue tokens or digitized assets and seeking legal counsel with respect to securities and regulation then you should speak to Josh Lawler at law firm Zuber Lawler. They sponsor the Bad Crypto podcast and they’re specialists in developing technology, including the …

Ira Kleiman’s legal team claims Dr Craig Wright already has the ability to open the encrypted file believed to contain the private keys to more than 820,000 Bitcoin. The Kleiman estate is suing Wright over the Bitcoin he allegedly mined in a partnership with the late Dave Kleiman. Wright says there was no partnership. According to court documents filed May 21, Kleiman alleges Wright “has the ability to open the encrypted file, but won’t because it will contain evidence of the partnership and its Bitcoin holdings.” Kleiman submitted that $1.6 million in Bitcoin (BTC) had been spent from addresses supplied …

Editor’s note: This story was updated on May 21 to include Craig Wright’s response. Bitcoin SV’s billionaire benefactor Calvin Ayre was the first to reveal Satoshi claimant Craig Wright denied moving 50 BTC from a long-dormant address thought by some to belong to the Bitcoin founder. On Wednesday, an unknown party moved 50 Bitcoin (BTC) ⁠— roughly $486,000 worth — from an address containing coins mined barely one month after the launch of the Bitcoin mainnet in 2009. But in a Twitter response to Blockstream’s Adam Back, Ayre said it had nothing to do with Wright. The Satoshi claimant later …

On May 20, reports indicated that Satoshi Nakamoto may have reactivated himself in order to move 50 Bitcoins (BTC) first mined back in February 2009. Upon further research, it was discovered that these were not just any Bitcoin. They are Bitcoin that Dr. Craig Wright himself has laid claim to. Transactions in question The transaction in question transferred 50 BTC to two addresses with a 40/10 split (this split is reminiscent of the famous first ever Bitcoin transfer, which sent 10 BTC from Satoshi to computer scientist, Hal Finney). The coins in today’s transaction were originally mined on February 9 …